Simple formatting issue

[tvalle]

I am trying to send an email with multiple lines. I can't seem to get a new line to start. I have tried countless ways of formatting to get a new line to happen. I have finally scaled it down to the simplest thing I can find, strait out of a PHP book, and it still doesn't work. The code is:

$msg = "This is a test\n";

I get an error. Can anyone tell me why this wouldn't work? Thanks.

[LordShryku]

Originally posted by tvalle
I get an error.

Maybe you want to tell us what this error says?

[tvalle]

Originally posted by LordShryku
Maybe you want to tell us what this error says?

I basically just echo an error message if the mail wasn't sent properly. If I simply remove the \n the message sends fine. Here is the code in its entirety:

<?
$to = "[e-mail]";

$headers = "MIME-Version: 1.0\r\n";

$headers .= "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1\r\n";

$headers .= "From: ".$_POST['email']."\r\n";

$msg = "This is a test\n";

$mail_sent = mail($to,$_POST['facility'], $msg, $headers);

if ($mail_sent) {
header ("Location: thanks.php");

} else {
echo "there was an error sending the email";
}

?>

[LordShryku]

You're sending an HTML email....to make a line break, use a <br /> tag....